Rachel H
Software Engineer at Gusto
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolRachel H is a seasoned software engineer with 14–15 years of experience building and operating production systems, primarily in Ruby on Rails, with strong hands-on work in Go, Kubernetes, and PostgreSQL. She has balanced individual contributor and leadership roles—most recently focusing on hands-on senior/staff IC work—after leading engineering teams at WorkRamp and serving as Director of Engineering at Relevant Healthcare. At VMware and Pivotal she shipped cloud-native and observability tooling, contributed to Postgres-related projects, and helped build a Postgres operator for Kubernetes, demonstrating deep systems and reliability expertise. An active maintainer and contributor to Ruby libraries like active_hash, she’s comfortable refactoring, adding multi-file YAML/JSON support, and driving test coverage to improve robustness. Based in Victoria, BC, she values correctness and thoughtful system design and brings experience fostering inclusive engineering cultures and DEI initiatives. Outside work she recharges exploring nature with her family and pursues creative projects that reflect her pragmatic, design-minded approach.
14 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Mathematics, Computer Science, East Asian Studies, BS, Mathematics, Computer Science, East Asian Studies at Haverford CollegeMinor, Computer Science, Minor, Computer Science at Bryn Mawr College
English, Spanish, Japanese
Github Skills (5)
testing10
json10
yaml10
ruby10
activerecord9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
active-hash/active_hash
Jan 2014 - Jan 2014
A readonly ActiveRecord-esque base class that lets you use a hash, a Yaml file or a custom file as the datasource
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits in 21 days
Contributions summary:Rachel primarily focused on enhancing the `active_hash` library, particularly around the implementation of multiple file loading for YAML and JSON data sources. They added support for loading multiple YAML files, handling both array and hash-type file structures. Additionally, the user implemented support for multiple files with JSON, alongside refactoring and cleaning up of the codebase, fixing typos and adding new test cases. This included refactoring existing code and introducing new tests to ensure the library's robustness.
hashidshashrailsrubyreadonly
rheaton/carrierwave-video
Apr 2012 - Feb 2018
carrierwave extension to use ffmpeg to transcode videos to html5-friendly format
Contributions:56 commits, 4 PRs, 5 pushes in 5 years 11 months
carrierwavevideoshtml5videoffmpeg
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